Productivity Planning

Last Friday our SSL certificate for this site expired. In general this is used for only a couple things - protecting our administration of our site, store, and such; our Informant OS X update checks, and for when you get [...]

The App Economy There has been much said recently about the state of the Apple App Market (sample here, and here, and here). Frankly, it sucks. The truth is that there simply is not enough market to continue a [...]

I am excited to talk a bit about what we have been working on over the last few months. I know we've be very quiet especially on Informant for OS X and so I want to get my head [...]

I think there is a fundamental difference between a focus on consumer and professional software when it comes to how options/preferences/settings are designed and implemented. Often for consumer software the fewer options and the best "guess" as to what [...]

March 17, 2016 Thanks so much to all who participated! It has been so much fun to read all of your comments. Our winners are listed below. Congratulations to: S cithra003 hayros Please contact amy@fanaticsoftware.com to claim your prize. [...]

I've been working on Informant 5.0 for a long time - mostly as part of our Mac Desktop version and also designing new refreshed interfaces throughout. I try really hard not to provide any timelines on major releases like [...]

In the next OS X version, Apple is adding a new ability to import Evernote into Apple Notes. This is really interesting because the Apple Notes app is actually pretty good in El Capitan. In general, I prefer using Evernote because [...]

I’ve had a few people write to me lately of the fact that we didn’t make our goal for a End of Year 2015 final 1.0 release and its true - we didn't. One of the defining points of Early Access [...]

January 11, 2016 - Thank you all so much for your participation!  It was fun to read how everyone benefits from technology in a personal way. The winner of this giveaway is rpfarrah@gmail.com  - "I am very task-oriented. I work off [...]